Perspectives from the engineers and consultants who deliver the work — written for business leaders who have to make technology decisions with real budgets attached.
Most cloud bills grow faster than the businesses they support. In our experience running cost reviews, the same five patterns account for the large majority of avoidable spend.
Over-provisioned instances sized for a launch-day peak that never returned. Storage tiers nobody revisited after the first year. Non-production environments running twenty-four hours a day. Data transfer costs hidden inside an architecture that crosses regions more often than it needs to. And autoscaling configured to scale up but never meaningfully down.
None of these require a re-architecture to fix. A structured review typically identifies 20–40% of recoverable spend within two weeks, and most of the changes carry no functional risk at all.
Typical findings from a two-week WorkPark cloud cost review.
Off-the-shelf software wins more often than vendors like us admit. Here is the framework we use to decide honestly — covering process fit, total cost of ownership, switching risk, and where custom development genuinely pays for itself.
Talk it through with usBig-bang rewrites fail far more often than they succeed. A phased strangler approach lets you replace a legacy platform piece by piece while operations continue — and lets you stop safely if priorities change.
Talk it through with usThe incidents we are called in to review rarely involve exotic attacks. They involve unpatched dependencies, over-broad access, and secrets in the wrong place. A checklist worth running this quarter.
Talk it through with usFixed price is not the problem; fixed price with an unclear scope is. How to write a statement of work that protects both sides and still leaves room for the discoveries every project produces.
Talk it through with usGrowing demand for migration and cost-optimisation work has led us to double the size of our cloud practice, adding dedicated site reliability and FinOps capability for managed clients.
Talk it through with usInternal software rarely gets design attention, yet the cost of a confusing interface shows up every day in training time, data-entry errors, and tickets. Three changes that reliably reduce all three.
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